Item 71791 - Veterans Administration Facility Administration building, Togus, ca. 1938
- Item 71791 - Veterans Administration Facility Administration building, Togus, ca. 1938
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- Item 71791
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Image Info The administration building at Togus was built in 1935 to replace the earlier “Head Quarters” that had served the facility since 1889.
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The Togus Veterans Administration Facility is one of the oldest veterans’ facilities in the United States, having opened in Chelsea, Maine in 1866 as a home for disabled soldiers on the site of a former health summer resort known as Togus Springs. “Togus” comes from the Native American “Worromontogus,” or mineral water. Through the Consolidation Act of July 1930, the property at Togus became a Veterans Administration Facility, and additional buildings were added throughout the 1930s. Togus was notable for being the first home created by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and thus the first facility built to assist volunteer soldiers.
The caption reads, "Administration building, Veterans Administration Facility, Togus, Maine."
The Tichnor Brothers printing company published this type of postcard circa 1938.
